Largest show to date, came in 2nd, qualify for a National show, then downed 12,000 calories in 24 hours.
That about raps it up…
Ok, fine. Let me get into a few more details.
As you all know the last couple of weeks I’ve been posting my days on here and now want to walk you all through my Friday in preparation and Saturday before the judging.
Jon and I woke up at 5am to begin our 8 hour drive to Louisville. The drive was fine, but it was hard to get my water in, namely because I didn’t want to be stopping every hour to pee. I downed about 1 liter the entire trip.
We arrived a little before 1pm, checked into our hotel and I got to drinking on my 3 remaining liters. Knocked out about 2 cups of sweet potato fries and 6 oz of chicken.
Killed 4 rice cakes and 2 tbsp around 3pm. And then did another 2 cups of sweet potato fries and chicken at 5pm.
Athlete check in was at 7:30. Seeing as I had done a few shows before this one I wasn’t expecting that many people, but when we got there I saw a line of over 100 people checking in and more just kept coming in.
Here was a look at the stage from the crowd view.
It moved efficiently, though. I bought my NPC card for the year ($100) and then waited to get my height measured to see what class I would be in. The tape measure said 5’10”, which threw me into class C.
Jon and I then went across the hall to where all the tanning was being done. They had 2 rooms, one men and one women, and they were moving like clock work. I had gotten there early, but they were able to get me in quickly. I got 2 coats of competition tan sprayed on, only one on my face as my face gets hella dark. I met one of my competitors there, Chase Isaac, cool guy. He was down there to tan for the second time, because he had sweat little while getting his first coat, so they had to make him go shower it off and come back again. I’m not a big sweater, so mine dried quick, but just be aware that you need to stay cool as possible during this part of the prep. If your tan is off, all your hard work and dieting can be all thrown away. Total cost of tanning was $150 for this show.
I threw on my black, loose clothes (make sure you have as set if you are going to get a spray tan) and headed back to the hotel to eat a few more carbs and try to sleep.
When I got back to the hotel I snapped a few pics to see where I was at.
Getting my Zyzz’s on when I got back from tanning.
Not to bad.
Chilled out watching TV until about 12:45am and then my attempt at sleep begun.
I was much more relax than I had been before other competitions. I had brought my own bed sheets and pillow case (towels as well), so I wasn’t worried about messing the hotel sheets up. I was cool enough, so I wasn’t worried about sweating. But for the love of all that is good I couldn’t get to sleep. I think it was my body just needing to lay in the dark all night to prepare for the coming day. That’s my cool story brah and I’m sticking to it.
“Woke up” around 6am and had about 3 oz of chicken and begun to get ready. Made sure my sweet new hair do was all in place. Made sure I had my shorts packed. Loaded up all my sugars and pre workouts to take before getting my pump. We left just before 7am. The athlete meeting wasn’t until 10:30, but we had found out the the Derby Marathon was being run right outside the Galt House, where the show was being held and we thought it smart to leave a few hours early.
We got there around 7:40am and I thought I would take the time and get a touch up coat of tan applied, just to make sure I hadn’t messed up any spots from the night before. After that Jon and I sat around and waited until I got in to the meeting.
Quick shout out to my sponsor for this show. Promax help me get up there and is always so supportive. Next show I will have a “blacked out” version of the Promax shirt. Thanks again guys!
PROMAX!!!
During the Athletes Meeting they went over the order of events and how smooth this show would be. I was pumped and ready to get back to the pump up room and get swole. When the meeting was over everyone went to the back and to our surprise, NO WEIGHTS. That’s right, in a pump up room for a bodybuilding show, there were no weights. Shoot, all they had back there was a couple of bands. Which wouldn’t be enough. So we know we where going to have to get creative.
About 30 minutes before my class was going to go on, I took 2 scoops of c4 and had eaten about 2 rice cakes with peanut butter. Me and a few of the other guys started walking around looking for things to do pull ups off of. I found a long door frame that had a nice 4 inch lip on the edge. I got 2 sets of 15 in when a manager told me that I couldn’t do that there because of how old the building was. I kindly asked “what else is there around here for us to hang off of?” He pointed me towards a door and said that there was a concrete lip out by the pool that we could pull up from. Sure enough, there it was, we did about 4 or 5 sets out there and got a good back and arm pump.
I moved back in side to attempt to get my shoulders going, but was finding it difficult without proper weights. Time to get creative again. Chase Isaac and I, used each others arms to do lateral raises. Not the ideal thing, but I was willing to do whatever to get my shoulder full of blood. We did countless push ups and calf raises before being called to line up.
I was the first to hit the stage for our height class. I did a front, then a quarter right, quarter to the back and then a quarter to be facing left. Everything went smooth. They moved me off to the side and let the other competitors come out and show their stuff. After everyone had been sent through they did the first call outs, ” number 20, Chase Erwin” Holy crap, that’s me! Dead center stage the entire first call out. We went through a few turns and they never moved me. Chase and I were also the first ones to be dismissed off stage. That was an AWESOME feeling.
Comparisons
I walked out and found Jon. By this time he had meet up with Chris and Colleen, who were awesome enough to come out and see the show. We watched some of the other competitors from the floor and chatted. After which I was ready to eat a little something. I grabbed a sandwich and we chilled out, seeing as we had 4 hours to burn. Unfortunately for them I was not much fun, as I was pretty dead and didn’t feel like moving around to much. They were nice enough to just hang until the evening show came about.
Chris, Colleen, Jon and myself after the show.
The night show was upon us and it was time to pump again and see exactly were I placed. Went through the same routine pretty much. Went on stage and they begun to call places. After they called the third place and it wasn’t me I got really excited. Because I knew I had qualified for nationals, as the top 2 qualify. And that is when they called me, 2nd place. Then they called Chase’s name and I was pumped for him. Totally earned that first place awarding.
Walked off stage and was VERY pleased. Much more than I expected. Came away nationally qualified and met some great people.
Now, for what you all have been waiting for the beginning of my EPIC 24 HOURS OF EATING!!
I would run through it all, but I like pictures more so here.
Foods eaten:
- 4 ihop pancakes
- 3 Cinna-stack french toast
- Hash browns
- Bacon
- 4 otis spunkmeyer muffins
- 3 Crunchy Tacos
- 64oz coke
- Nutragous King Size
- 8 chocolate chip cookies
- 5 donuts
- 3 kfc chicken strips
- 2 orders of mashed potatos
- 1 large Pepsi
- Biscuit
- DQ Blizzard
- Bag of gummy sweettarts
- Cookie Cake from my birthday
- Popeyes 3 pieces dinner with a large sweet tea
- 1/2 gallon of chocolate milk
YEAHHHHH… So needless to say I ate a little bit during my Saturday night and Sunday.
I am still alive and well, also, I still have visible abs.
A special thanks to one of my best friends, Jon Dao. Dude made the trip up there with me. It was great having him along for the ride. He was a trooper as he was SO LOW on carbs Thursday, Friday and Saturday( he was at 500 grams a day…), but it was still great to have you back in the states and your constant support means a ton bro.
NEXT UP: Junior Nationals in Chicago
It is 7 weeks away and I hope to meet more of you wonderful people up there. If anyone is interested, check it out right here.
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